The Magistrate's Table
9
2026-08-27
reviewed
The party dines with the man Pew warned them about, and he is generous, competent, and better at this than they are. A letter from Salisbury turns Emma’s dormant family thread into an emergency, Pratap Singh delivers on his two commissions, and by Monday evening a stiff card from Government House is lying on the verandah table.
Opens from: Chapter 04 Session 08 Wrap Up and CONTINUE HERE
Key prep: Session 09 Plan, Standing Situations, Chapter 4 Social Calendar, Chapter 4 Wentworth Account
Locations: Garden Reach, Cavendish Compound, Chowringhee, The Maidan, Sutanuti
Travelling with the party: Thomas Wyndham (NPC), Elizabeth Ashby (NPC)
Documents
- Plan: Session 09 Plan (session-prep, 2026-08-22)
- Handoff brief: CONTINUE HERE (Keeper-only, superseded by the Plan)
- Handouts: Wentworth Letter From Salisbury, Harcourt Letter to Renwick, and the Gazette pile (Session 08 Handouts, Handouts 2-6)
- Image prompts: Chapter 4 Image Prompts — chapter-wide atomic prompts (Session 9 section first), filenames targeted at
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Scene Index
| # | Scene | When | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scene 05 St Johns | Sun 11:15 | pickup — churchyard hour un-run |
| 2 | Scene 10 The Havildars Errands | interleaved | ready |
| 3 | Scene 06 Ashworth Dinner | Sun evening | reworked, ready |
| 4 | Scene 13 The Maidan At Dawn | Mon first light | ready — Sophia delivery |
| 5 | Scene 11 The Morning Post | Mon breakfast | ready |
| 6 | Scene 08 Spokes | any order | recycled intact |
| 7 | Scene 09 The Gather | Mon evening | recycled intact |
| 8 | Scene 07 Sutanuti | at her asking | recycled intact |
| 9 | Scene 12 The Embankment Works | from Tue | contingency |